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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1957)
o i ill I i i iimiiiw H n hi )i 1 M' PtP - . - -- CO O TWI SENATOR WANTS A WORD Supreme Court Jus tice William J. Brennan (foreground) listens attentively tif testimony before the Senate judiciary committee at open hearing in Washington on his nomination. Left is Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who is not a member of the committee but who asked to be allowed to question Brennan. At right is Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. 51st Year Medford Price 10c Tribune United Pn ull Leased Wire United' Press Full Leased Wi Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1957 14 Pages 'Papa Knows Best' Attitude Displayed by BLM in Handling Marketing of O&C Timber University Museum Has Prized Possessions Norman Okla. (U.PJ An egret bat, a woman's girdle, a blowgun and a canoe are prized possessions of the University of Oklahoma's Stovall Museum. The items are part of a ship ment to the university of some 177 Indian articles from the Aclor Jack Webb, Wife Part Again Hollywood W.R) Actor Jack Webb, the "Joe Friday" of the televised Q"Dragnet" series and his wife, Dorothy Towne, have parted for the third time. A spokesman for Webb said Wednesday, the separation was "final," but that there were no Plans for divorceyet. Webb and Miss Towne were wed in Chicago June 11, 1955. They separated six months later, were reconciled, parted again last Oct. 29, then made up again. Miss Towne was reported to have loft for Mexico about a week ago. Webb, the former husband of singer Julie London, is making a feature length movie at Repub lic Studios. Hailstorm Halts Traffic In North Carolina Town Boone, N.C. U.R A hail storm halted traffic for 15 min utes and covered the ground with hail pellets up to a half inch in diameter in this moun tain town Wednesday. The temperature dropped 10 degrees during the afternoon storm. No serious damage was reported. G be sure... -J I C.-ucane If- tj sugar ft ; I for ihe pure cane sugar from fiaWaWJ By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The Bureau of Land Management has just dis played what a House investigat ing suDcommu- ten nisi TT ing about when it said that too many agencies have adopted a "papa knows best" attitude in keeping le gitimate infor mation con- t1,,u,fi r""' A RnhtL Smith issues from the public at large. BLM has now made public a report prepared by a private for est expert, Paul F. Graves, but the manner in which it did so bears describing as an illustra tion of the heart of the problem raised by the tendency of gov ernment officials to clamp a tight lid on any information that will not reflect favorably on their agencies. The Graves report is critical of BLM's long-standing policy of imposing marketing restric tions on the federal timber it puts up for bid on western Ore gon's O&C lands. Its most sen sational conclusion is that these restrictions have limited compe tition, thereby reducing bid prices for O&C timber and in turn causing the 18 O&C coun ties that share timber revenues to lose in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 over a three-year pe riod. Professor Graves, of Syracuse university, studied the O&C sit uation for two months last sum mer, then submitted his careful ly documented report in Octo ber. The report was held in con fidence by bureau officials who relished not the thought of the commotion it might stir up in behalf of changes in BLM poli cies. BLM had hired Professor Graves to make the report be cause of pressure from Congress, for the Senate Interior commit tee last summer concluded a long study of federal timber sale policies with a recommendation that marketing area restrictions be reconsidered. Hie committee requested that BLM study the problem and report back on whether it would continue or erase marketing areas, and the reasons why. Some weeks ago BLM an nounced it would hold a public hearing in Portland March 1 to let the issue be debated. But, according to informed sources, BLM. had no intention of dis closing the contents of the Graves report prior to that hear ing. Obviously, it would provide the most lethal ammunition for opponents of BLM policy. Meanwhile, a newspaper re porter gained access to the con tents of the report, and his story in this newspaper made head lines over the finding that the counties were losing money due to BLM's restrictions on free competition for timber. BLM acted with typical "papa knows best" form. Off its mim eographed machines came a press release purporting to de- Opposition Voiced To Siskiyou Sales Tax Yreka Opposition to a county sales tax in Siskiyou county was voiced at a meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce here this week. Yreka supervisor, Bill Ealy, already on record as opposing a county sales tax, contended that "any additional tax would drive the business into Oregon." He said he thought a sales tax might be alright at a later date in the event Oregon passes a similar tax. Harry Friedman, Yreka, city councilman, said Susanville city officials told him "not one mer chant in 500" would say estab lishment of a sales tax in that city had hurt him. The city councilman pointed out that, a sales tax would pro vide Yreka with more money than the city's entire current in come from various forms of li censing. Friedman noted that Yreka does not have enough money to construct projects necsssary for city streets and their improve ment, or for other city improvements. TOO COLD Hartford, Conn. (U.PJ Boy Scouts who took an ice box on a camping trip in 20-below-zero weather knew what they were doing they used it to keep food from freezing. STORE HOURS? Weekdays 8:30 to 7 Sundays 10:00 to 7 We Reserve the Right to Limit Quantity 1 Prices in This Ad Effective Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 1, 2, 3 CHECK OUR EVERYDAY LOW, LOW SHELF PRICES! 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BLM's press release, indeed, ig nored the entire 115-page narra- Siskiyou Seeking Aircraft Plant Yreka A move to obtain a multimillion dollar aircraft as sembly plant in Siskiyou county was launched recently by sev eral citizens who have solicited support of county supervisors. Jim LeBaron, Yreka business man, proposed that a three man delegation be sent to Boeing air craft headquarters in Seattle in an attempt to obtain location of a proposed Boeing plant in Sis kiyou county. He said Siskiyou isolation lo cation would fit in with the gov ernment's plan for dispersal of strategic plants from vulnerable areas. LeBaron pointed out that the Montague site already has a 7,500 foot heavy duty runway, and a spur railroad track is nearby for materials shipment. LeBaron said "a final assem bly plant would employ about 5,000 workers, and might double Siskiyou's population." He sug gested that a brochure outlining assets and advantages of the Sis kiyou airport be prepared for distribution to aircraft com panies throughout California. tive in which Professor. Graves first describes O&C timber sale practices and their economic ef fect on local lumbering commu nities and then reaches his con clusions that they should be changed. j In an effort to district atten-: tion from this conclusion, BLM : dug deep into th appendix to find statistics in a set of tables , from which it concluded that BLM sale prices were about $9 per thousand board feet more than those received by the For est Service in the same general j area. BLM argued that it would j have received $15.7 million less i than it did in the three-year I study period if it had followed ' practices of the Forest Service, ' which does not impose market-, ing "limits. j Statements Refuted j Candidly admitting the pur- j pose of its press release, BLM j then claimed this "refutes pub lished statements to the effect that marketing procedures for O&C timber might have cost the 18 O&C counties potential addi tional revenue." BLM sought to give the impression that its con-1 elusion was the kernel of the 1 Graves report, when in fact the i professor didn't even discuss it. J In any event, deliberately dis-; torted as it was, this representa tion compelled BLM to make public the report it would have preferred to sit on as though it had an inalienable right to de cide what facts of government should be withheld from public scrutiny. Amazon rain forest in South America. James Lauriault, a missionary-linguist with the In stitute of Linguistics, assembled, clothing, utensils and weapons typical of the way of life of 11 Indian tribes and shipped them to O. U. " OfflSpfllDIBCSOSjLgp yaffle III rmwt w S k. 3D J yJ( Why not open your savings ac count with us now and enjoy real profit on your savings, , WITH COMPLETE SAFETY I Investments Made by the 10th Receive Dividends as of the 1st Current Dividend 'O Per Ann 3 FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan- Association of Medford 29 North Ivy Street R. F. Kyle, President Standard tries a flood of fire to make worn out oil f ields produce again j; mum sm?& sfeUr f - -vlffl lip 'p gff - M ; fl III gp III . 1 "t 'rHirnrrr?rU!TV-7lTf It Vir'J'.. " i tt. ryrr supply the 13 million barrels per IT H Fire flooding produce heal and preaurt to boil out previowly wureamrabl crudt oil, drimng ii underground to nearby producing veils. MANY INACTIVE WELLS STILL HAVE LOTS OF OIL left underground in spite of the industry's great advances in oil recov ery. Our country must have this oil to meet the growing power needs of industry, the Armed Forces and motorists. That's why Standard is trying a new conservation experiment called "fire flooding.'" We ignite some of the oil in a pool ... control burning by regulating the air supply. Heat and pressure drive the oil to surrounding wells fot pumping. It will take more than a year's time and a million dollars to see if fire flooding works. We think it's worth the effort because it could add more to U.S. under ground oil reserves than the discovery of an entire new oil field. Helping find new sources of oil to supply the 13 million barrets per ' day the U.S. will need in 1966 1956 .827,000 berrab pt day 1966 13,000,000 borrafc pm day Standard's petroleum engineers say, "Back in 1925 the industry could pre dict only about 20 recovery from a new field. Modern secondary recovery methods, of which fire flooding is one of the latest, could mora than double recovery ... so important in meeting a constantly rising need for more ou." STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA plana ahead to rv you bmtfr i
